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If it takes all summer : Martin Luther King, the KKK, and states' rights in St. Augustine, 1964 / Dan R. Warren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warren, Dan R., 1925-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Saint Augustine--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Florida--Saint Augustine--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- States' rights (American politics)--History--20th century.
- States' rights (American politics).
- Lawyers--Florida--Daytona Beach--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- Saint Augustine (Fla.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Saint Augustine (Fla.).
- Saint Augustine (Fla.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Florida--Saint Augustine--History--20th century.
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther.
- Warren, Dan R., 1925-.
- Warren, Dan R.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation's oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil rights bill the center piece of his domestic policy, chose this tourism-driven community as an ideal location to demonstrate the injustice of discrimination and the complicity of southern leaders in its enforcement. St. Augustine was planning an elaborate celebration of its
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword by Morris Dees; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Protest and Reaction; 2. Where Does St. Augustine Stand?; 3. Birth of a Social Conscience; 4. The Point of No Return; 5. The Fuse Is Lit; 6. Little Children Shall Lead Them; 7. State versus Federal Control; 8. Exodus with Honor; 9. Recrimination and Recovery; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-199) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8066-3
- OCLC:
- 427564323
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